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Some people think that making themselves feel big, seem big, make something big of themselves

is a way to find well-being, peace, happiness in life.

A truly great being, and we'll get the gap in between,

knows that being nobody is the most beautiful thing

in the whole universe.

It's total freedom. Now, it depends on how you mean and how you get

to being nobody. Because nobody wants to be nobody. They get mad at me when I talk like this.

My psychiatrist and the therapist teach me to think highly of myself and to be positive, et cetera, et cetera.

And then you tell me to be nobody.

It's subtle.

And we talk about it.

Why not?

If you want to be somebody and you practice being nobody is tremendously unhealthy because you're suppressing the part of you that wants to be somebody.

If you want to impress people and you're trying not to try to practice humility, that's false humility

that really you want to impress people, especially if you think by looking humble,

you're impressing people.

You hear me, we're gonna talk deep.

So that's not what's meant by becoming nobody.

What's meant by becoming nobody is that actually

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